29.11.2012 Dangerous precedent in Mahiliou – Aliaksei Paulouski not employed because of the “disagreement of the staff”
On 27 November the judge of the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou Yuliya Trapynina turned down the lawsuit of the activist of the Independent Trade Union of Radio-Electronic Industry Aliaksei Paulouski, thus denying the fact of adverse discrimination during his attempts to get employed.
29.11.2012 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich put into penal cell
This information was received from his mother, Tatsiana Frantskevich. She knows neither what he has been punished for nor for what term he has been put in the penal cell.
29.11.2012 Protest in Mahiliou: multi-stored houses instead of a birch grove
Dwellers of the Yubileynu suburb of Mahiliou stand against the cut-down of a birch grove and construction of multi-stored building in its place.
29.11.2012 Another linguistic expertise appointed over Andrei Pachobut's writings
The journalist of “Gazeta Wyborcza” was called out to an investigator. Andrei Pachobut told the charter97.org about that himself. He is now under an investigation on the case about the insult of Lukashenka
29.11.2012 Have charges to Haidukou been changed?
The arrested civil activist is being transferred from Minsk to Vitsebsk. Andrei Haidukou's mother received this information from a lawyer, RFE/RL reports.
28.11.2012 Human rights defender Tatsiana Reviaka gets questioned concerning the receipt of finances from Ales Bialiatski
The tax agencies use new ways to pressurize the member of the Council of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, the president of the Belarusian Human Rights House Tatsiana Reviaka.
28.11.2012 How “Viasna” was evicted (video)
On 26 November bailiffs confiscated the assets and sealed the premises of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” where legal aid to repressed citizens had been conducted, trainings, meeting, seminars and press conference on human rights violations had been conducted for the 12 last years.
28.11.2012 Brest: people make a chain near to protect their house from unlawful construction works
In the morning of 28 November dwellers of the house #32 in Nabiarezhnaya Street in Brest, in the inter-column space of which a drugstore is being constructed, tried to prevent the construction works by lining in a row in front of the building.
28.11.2012 Belarusian paratrooper Eduard Lobau (video)
A mini-film dedicated to the political prisoner and member of the “Young Front” Eduard Lobau appeared on the web.
28.11.2012 “New Life” church is being evicted
The court ruling of the Supreme Economical Court was received by the believers on 27 November. According to it they must vacate the building by 5 November.
28.11.2012 Villagers protest against the storage of chemical waste in Mizgiry
Dwellers of the remote villages of the Slonim district – Sasnouka, Mizgiry, Balty, Hrynkoushchyna and Yarutsichy – stand against the storage of 4.000 barrels of chemicals in the village of Mizgiry.
28.11.2012 BCD activist Siarhei Malashonak intends to hold a rally in support of political prisoners in Navapolatsk
Siarhei Malashonak, an activist of the organizing committee of the party Belarusian Christian Democracy, applied to the Navapolatsk City Executive Committee for the authorization of a street action in support of political prisoners in Belarus.
28.11.2012 You can phone to “Viasna”
Despite the confiscation of the office, the Human Rights Center “Viasna” continues its work. Not a single direction of its activities has been abandoned.
28.11.2012 Belarusian Popular Front banned from holding a rally in Slutsk
The Slutsk District Executive Committee prohibited the BPF party to carry out a rally on 1 December on occasion of the anniversary of the Slutsk Uprising.
28.11.2012 Human Rights Chair concerned about closing of Viasna office in Belarus
COPENHAGEN, 28 November 2012 - Matteo Mecacci, chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly human rights committee, today expressed deep concern over the confiscation of property and closing off of the Viasna office in Minsk
